[atleastoptimal]

Open source AI is getting cheaper and cheaper. Model companies run inference at a profit, the lack of profitability from AI companies is just due to them putting all their capital into training the next generation of models.

[sameermanek]

Seems like openAI spent ~7B on inference in first half of the year. Their revenue was 4B in the same time. They spent another 5B on rnd to deprecate their own, and rest of industry's assets.

[scuff3d]

I'd love to see the financial data on that.

[ManuelKiessling]

Model companies running inference at a profit — do you have a good source for this?